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 They are caught and put into trong rum; and if the part bit or tung be rubbed with it, the pain is oon allayed, though the ting of the corpion is at firt exquiite, and hardly to be endured with temper.

Spiders are alo here in great plenty, and of various kinds, ome of them being much larger than any in England, their bodies are covered with a fine down like hair, and their mouths are armed with trong, harp teeth, or forceps, with which they wound everely, but their bite is not venomous. Others are very mall, and beautifully potted with a variety of the mot lively colours; and ome have eyes in different parts of their bodies, but they are all harmles.

The awyer fly, o called from its faculty of awing aunder the branches of trees, whoe ublance is its food, is about three inches in length when full grown, and is a very ingular inect. Its head has omewhat the appearance of